[Lucky McLuckerson]

......................VS.........................

Date: Sunday, May 12 2024
Kickoff Time: 1630 Hrs BST
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester

League Standings And Form Guide

8. Manchester United: DDWDL
1. Arsenal: LWWWW


Previous League Meetings

Arsenal 3—1 Manchester United

Arsenal 3—2 Manchester United

Manchester United 3—1 Arsenal

Arsenal 3—1 Manchester United

Manchester United 3—2 Arsenal


All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 85
Arsenal wins: 75
Draws: 49


Pre-Match Pressers

Erik ten Hag




Mikel Arteta




Team News

Manchester United

Tyrell Malacia, Raphaël Varane, Luke Shaw, Victor Lindelöf, Willy Kambwala and Harry Maguire ruled out. Scott McTominay, Bruno Fernandes, Lisandro Martínez, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford doubtful.


Arsenal

Jurriën Timber doubtful.


Know The Opposition

Arsenal Football Club (also known as The Gunners), are a professional football club based in Holloway, London. In late 1886, a gaggle of workers from the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory decided to form a football team. They called themselves Dial Square as a reference to the sundial atop the entrance to the factory. On December 11, 1886, Dial Square romped to a 6-0 victory over Eastern Wanderers; the first game in their initial guise. Shortly afterwards the name ‘Royal Arsenal’ was adopted. Today, Arsenal are one of the most successful and popular clubs in the history of the English league, with a trophy haul than includes 13 League titles, 12 FA Cups, and 2 League Cups.

When Henry Norris decided that Arsenal needed a new manager in the summer of 1925, he could never have anticipated the impact of his next appointment. After flirting with relegation in the previous season, Chapman set about reinventing the Club with almost immediate effect, and in a broader sense helped move football from the amateur era into a professional one. In his first season at Highbury, the new manager steered the Gunners to an FA Cup Quarter Final and a second-place finish in the First Division; the highest league placing in their history. And unlike many of his contemporaries in Britain, Chapman was a fan of the continental game and counted among his friends Hugo Meisl and Jimmy Hogan, coaches of the Austrian Wunderteam of the 1930s.

In the mid '90s, they appointed another visionary in Arsène Wenger with former vice-chairman David Dein bringing him to the club in 1996 - Dein actually wanted to appoint him a year earlier before Bruce Rioch but the old school board did not want a foreign manager - and the next 20 years have been a remarkable and unforgettable period in the club’s history - with Arsenal building a reputation for playing an attractive, streamlined style of football that rivals some of the best teams in Europe while winning three league titles and seven FA Cups and boasting the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pirès, Cesc Fàbregas and Robin Van Persie in their ranks.

The club plays its home games at the Emirates Stadium, and has a bitter sporting rivalry with neighbors Tottenham Hotspur in a match termed the North London Derby, apart from a competitive rivalry against the other major clubs of the Premier League, especially Manchester United — in an affair that peaked in the late 1990s to early 2000s period.


Familiar Faces

N/A.


Referee

Paul Tierney.​

 

[horsechoker]

I'd 8-2 be a Manchester United fan

Here comes their revenge

 

[PSV]

Probably scared shitless by our performance today.

 

[thisisnottaken1]

If they don’t score more than 6 goals I’d be surprised.

 

[erikcred]

If they don’t score more than 6 goals I’d be surprised.

They don't deserve the title otherwise.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

I'll actually be quite pissed if the only result we get between now and the end of the season is one that effectively hands City the title.

Realistically though, we'll probably lose in an embarrassing fashion.

 

[Berbasbullet]

Can’t believe I’m actually going to this one.

 

[BorisManUtd]

I've just predicted 1-4 loss and actually think I'm being an optimist with that result. Dark, dark times.

 

[King Eric 7]

Score prediction only goes up to nine. This is going to be brutal.

 

[James35]

We need Bruno back just to go up to a less stinky level of shit.

I didn't see more than 1 win in our final 5 games before Bruno and Maguire injuries. Now though I think we will lose all 5 and probably concede over 20 goals.

If ten Hag does not get sacked at the end of season I’ll have zero faith in INEOS.

1-4

 

[Bwuk]

Do we have too?

 

[Fr. Todd Unctious]

Crazy as it sounds it would be typical of the cnuts to turn up for once at hand City the title in the process

 

[Mike Smalling]

They will be salivating having watched that game tonight. It will be a slaughter.

 

[OldSchoolManc]

It’s a completely grey pie chart

 

[Red Rash]

At least we will stop Liverpool winning the league....

Sad face

 

[izec]

Crazy as it sounds it would be typical of the cnuts to turn up for once at hand City the title in the process

Nah, we are a shambles and they are pretty good. Think we will be closer to a 6-0 loss than a win

 

[Todd]

It'll be a miracle if we can limit this to 0-3.

We're not scoring in this match, that's for sure.

 

[Bocca9978]

We got this.
Only joking.

 

[Winrar]

I think this is Arsenal’s best chance at avenging the 8-2.

 

[GledTheRed]

1-6

 

[SER19]

Would be like us to scrape a pointless draw and give city the title in this hellscape of a season

 

[Red Royal]

Dully expect Casimero, Antony and Eriksken to be 1st names on the teamsheet.

 

[thisisnottaken1]

Would be like us to scrape a pointless draw and give city the title in this hellscape of a season

Yup. A result that does favours for neither side. The worst of both worlds.

 

[Bwuk]

Onana
AWB - Dalot - Evans - Amass
Amrabat
Mainoo - Mount
Bruno
Amad - Garnacho


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[Cutch]

Any chance of a defender back?

 

[bosnian_red]

My first match live at old Trafford Can't wait. Yes we are shit and will probably lose, but all the same, been waiting for the chance to come out for over 20 years.

Hope the cnuts can put in something respectable. Hope ten hag is sacked before the game. Hope it's a good game. Don't even care about who wins the title.

 

[C'est Moi Cantona]

We need some players back or they're going to get their revenge for the 8-2.

 

[Irrational.]

What's the point?

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Think we might see Ten Hag booed off in this one.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

I'd 8-2 be a Manchester United fan

Here comes their revenge

Will we even score two?

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

Onana
Wan-Bissaka Casemiro Evans Dalot
Amrabat Mainoo
Garnacho Bruno Mount
Hojlund​

 

[DRJosh]

We’ll win this sparking talk about turning a corner…except the jokes on us….there isn’t any corner left to turn

 

[Bastian]

--------------------------Onana
---------Casemiro---Evans---Varane
Dalot-----------------------------------------Amass
----------Mount---Mainoo---Eriksen
----------------Hojlund--------Garnacho

Is anyone bar Varane realistically back to fitness?

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Luckily I've had to sell my ticket as I'm flying back from South Africa.

Unluckily I'll probably reach home like ten minutes before kick off...

Anyway, don't care if we lose - need Arsenal to win this feckin' league somehow. Just try not to get smashed lads.

 

[tomaldinho1]

I think this is Arsenal’s best chance at avenging the 8-2.

Yep. We’re basically them now, a once great team who get to a few cup finals and have fans channels spewing bile to the millions to profit from is being crap.

 

[2 man midfield]

We’ll win this

 

[Plant0x84]

Pray.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

we'll accidentally win this game

 

[Ayush_reddevil]

This thread should be replaced by one suggesting what to do on Sunday 1630 to try to stay away from the game plus all social media websites

 

[Ole'sgunnarwin]

We have a history of stopping Arsenal when they're flying.

In many of the trashings we've had in the last few years, we have a weird bounce back.

Beating Liverpool after losing 4-0 to Brentford
Beating Spurs away 3-0 after losing 5-0 home to Liverpool
We won our match after the 7-0 disaster too.

Have a feeling Arsenal will mess up here.